Re: New user need some help

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:46:52PM -0400, Terry wrote: > I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log on > with no > problem. My question is how do I get the GUI up after I log on? All I get > is the > prompt. > > Terry > As root, apt-get install x-window-syst

setting up an encrypted filesystem..

2006-04-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
I've been looking at mechanism for setting up an encrypted filesystem under Etch, and I have the basics working as follows: a. Initial Setup 1. apt-get install cryptosetup 2. modprobe dm-mod 3. cryptsetup -y create chda14 /dev/hda14 4. mkfs -t ext3 /dev/mapper/chda14

Re: mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video

2006-04-26 Thread H.S.
Eric P wrote: >> >> > > What's in your ~/mozilla/plugins directory? Did you mean ~/.mozilla/plugins? I do not have any "plugins" directory in my ~/.mozilla. > I have > ... > mplayerplug-in.so > mplayerplug-in.xpt > > You'll need to copy them in to this directory. > > Also, type 'about:plugi

Re: mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video

2006-04-26 Thread H.S.
Matthias Julius wrote: > "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>If I click on a video link, mozilla mplayer plugin shows that it is >>downloading the file but doesn't really play anything. After the >>download is complete, it tells as much and then it either doesn't do >>anything or just prints

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread charles norwood
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:24 +0200, Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session > works however. I get a message that the last session did last less > than 10 seconds and that there may be not enough space left on my > hard disk. There is

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-26 Thread Bruno Buys
Terry wrote: I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log on with no problem. My question is how do I get the GUI up after I log on? All I get is the prompt. Terry try 'startx' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Need tutorial on making PDC (Samba + LDAP) with Debian

2006-04-26 Thread Mike Gross
Harry (Linux) wrote: All... I need tutorial on making PDC (Samba + OpenLDAP) with Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Any good link or pdf? I have try the mandrake docs n i'm stuck. Thx a lot before... Harry I pretty much followed the howto at http://www.idealx.com/downloads/samba3-ldap-howto.pdf I h

Re: Need tutorial on making PDC (Samba + LDAP) with Debian

2006-04-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Harry (Linux) wrote: > All... > > I need tutorial on making PDC (Samba + OpenLDAP) with Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Any > good link or pdf? I have try the mandrake docs n i'm stuck. Thx a lot > before... > > Harry > > Google is your friend: http://www.google.com/search?hl=es&q=samba+ldap+pdc&btnG=B

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Terry wrote: > I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log on > with no > problem. My question is how do I get the GUI up after I log on? All I get > is the > prompt. > Please search Google [0] and the list archive [1]. This same exact question gets asked and

Need tutorial on making PDC (Samba + LDAP) with Debian

2006-04-26 Thread Harry (Linux)
All... I need tutorial on making PDC (Samba + OpenLDAP) with Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Any good link or pdf? I have try the mandrake docs n i'm stuck. Thx a lot before... Harry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New user need some help

2006-04-26 Thread Terry
I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log on with no problem. My question is how do I get the GUI up after I log on? All I get is the prompt. Terry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Forrest Smith
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:58:08PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up > any packages. What's the way to go? I'm running the same version of fetchmail that's in stable now on my testing box. Forrest > > + use a replacement like

Re: protecting MySQL password on multi-user system

2006-04-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Eric P wrote: > I'm on a multi-user Linux system running PHP and MySQL. I have user > permissions only. No root perms. > > Whenever I do an SQL query, I include (via PHP) a file (of which I'm the > owner) which exists just under the web root > which contains my MySQL username and password. >

Re: mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video

2006-04-26 Thread Eric P
Matthias Julius wrote: > "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>If I click on a video link, mozilla mplayer plugin shows that it is >>downloading the file but doesn't really play anything. After the >>download is complete, it tells as much and then it either doesn't do >>anything or just prints

protecting MySQL password on multi-user system

2006-04-26 Thread Eric P
I'm on a multi-user Linux system running PHP and MySQL. I have user permissions only. No root perms. Whenever I do an SQL query, I include (via PHP) a file (of which I'm the owner) which exists just under the web root which contains my MySQL username and password. I have to keep this file's p

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:08:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:59 -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > > > > > >>On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700 > > >>Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:59 -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700 > >>Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > > [snip] > > > >>I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Michael M.
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Since I use openbox + perlpanel + my_own_session_manager, I just source my .bashrc in my .xinitrc. Sorry, Felix, could you explain what you mean my "my own session manager"? You mean something other than gdm, kdm, xdm or wdm? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ U

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:13:42PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > You wrote: > > A quick check of my system log shows 1514 failed ssh attempts in the > > last four days. > > That almost goes away with fail2ban. Works with sarge, too, (though I > haven't yet upgraded from fail2ban 0.6.0-3.) > > Rega

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-26, Steve Lamb penned: > > Yeah, knew that but was doing 3 things at once. Lemme just say > never play MMORPG and admin at the same time. :D For several years, that would have effectively prevented me from admin'ing =P (But I'm feeling much better now ...) -- monique Help

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Greg Folkert wrote: > update-rc.d -f ssh remove Not true, that's the first thing I tried and none of the links were removed. :/ Oh, wait, maybe the -f makes a world of difference. *blush* > Never logout of said machine completely until you can login back in Yeah, knew that

Re: Weired SPAMSCORE [63% SPAM SCAN] Re: Re: Install Debian 3.1 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-04-26 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-22, Michelle Konzack penned: > Hi Guys and specialy Jacob. > > How do you get this SPAM score? > > My "spamassassin" give me only: > > > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on samba3.private > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:58 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > >> Many embedded systems don't have swap. ssh in inetd worked ok last time > >> I used it as long as speed was not important. > > > Thanks, Joey, I'll give it a whirl later on and let everyone know.

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: >> Many embedded systems don't have swap. ssh in inetd worked ok last time >> I used it as long as speed was not important. > Thanks, Joey, I'll give it a whirl later on and let everyone know. Was > just hoping that it was a question on dpkg-reconfigure th

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-26 Thread Miles Bader
"Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I think you did not hear from most of the legions of Sid users for > whom the Xorg upgrade proceeded without a single issue. As far as I could tell, the most annoying problems happened only if you had customized xorg.conf, which I suppose the bulk of

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Miles Bader
Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing about KDE that I've never been a big fan of is their DCOP > system. It takes time to get those processes started. That's not such > a big deal if you use KDE as your environment because that's loaded once > on startup. But if you use Gnome and w

Re: mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video

2006-04-26 Thread Matthias Julius
"H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I click on a video link, mozilla mplayer plugin shows that it is > downloading the file but doesn't really play anything. After the > download is complete, it tells as much and then it either doesn't do > anything or just prints "Stopped" message in the mpla

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Ralph Katz
You wrote: > A quick check of my system log shows 1514 failed ssh attempts in the > last four days. That almost goes away with fail2ban. Works with sarge, too, (though I haven't yet upgraded from fail2ban 0.6.0-3.) Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video

2006-04-26 Thread H.S.
Hello, If I click on a video link, mozilla mplayer plugin shows that it is downloading the file but doesn't really play anything. After the download is complete, it tells as much and then it either doesn't do anything or just prints "Stopped" message in the mplayer window (which is within the bro

Re: xorg errors under sid

2006-04-26 Thread Bruno Buys
Digby Tarvin wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:06:49PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: I'm trying to startx in sid under qemu. X won't start, with error lines like "could not init font path element /some-dir..., removing from list!" And then, "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'Fi

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/26/2006 02:20 PM, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:16:16PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>> Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote: >> >I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE >components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdes

Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

2006-04-26 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Gil Citro wrote: [...] My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line, but when I give the command lpr or lp the output starts at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off. [...] Send the

Re: xorg errors under sid

2006-04-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:06:49PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: >I'm trying to startx in sid under qemu. X won't start, with error > lines like "could not init font path element /some-dir..., removing from > list!" > And then, "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'Fixed'. > > > Snap

Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

2006-04-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote: [...] > My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line, > but when I give the command lpr or lp the output starts > at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to > the physical page boundary

Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

2006-04-26 Thread Gil Citro
I am running Sarge stable and have installed a LaserJet 4200n printer as an HP Jetdirect network printer using the included Laserjet 4200 Postscript driver. When I print a test page, the Ximian test page prints correctly. The dotted lines which are supposed to be 1/4 and 1/2 of an inch from the p

xorg errors under sid

2006-04-26 Thread Bruno Buys
I'm trying to startx in sid under qemu. X won't start, with error lines like "could not init font path element /some-dir..., removing from list!" And then, "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'Fixed'. Snapshot is here http://gigante.homelinux.org/imagens/tela10.jpg Some one he

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:23:30PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 01:58 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:23:26PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > > > Hi All, > [...] > > > Any suggestions? > > > > [...] > > You still stop the black hats from trying to guess

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> > + try installing the version from stable > > This may or may not work, it doesn't seem to have any explicit version > number depends, but I can't gaurantee the packages in testing are named > the same. i generally have, for testing and unstable machines, 'stable' (actually the name, ie. sarg

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:58:08PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up > any packages. What's the way to go? Checking packages.debian.org confirms this. > + use a replacement like getmail4 This will work if you have to get mail now

Re: mailsnarf in different files

2006-04-26 Thread Edson Marco Ferrari Junior
Hi all! To divide the log of mailsnarf in diferent files, i had to modify the source of mailsnarf. But it's very easy! It's old code: static void print_mbox_msg(char *from, char *msg) { char *p; time_t t; t = time(NULL); if (from == NULL) from = "mailsna

fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread lee
Hi, searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up any packages. What's the way to go? + use a replacement like getmail4 + try installing the version from stable + wait for a version for testing + get the source and compile myselfe Since I had some fun to find out how t

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 01:58 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:23:26PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > > Hi All, [...] > > Any suggestions? > > [...] > You still stop the black hats from trying to guess passwords > using your ssh server. Yes... yes you will. But what is the fun

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >When it asks you for a passphrase, hit twice - you have a null > >passphrase (which is fractionally less secure but that's probably OK.) > > Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the machine > containing the private key is compromised so, potentially, is every > machine that the public key has been distributed too. Though if you want to prevent one

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: When it asks you for a passphrase, hit twice - you have a null passphrase (which is fractionally less secure but that's probably OK.) Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the machine containing the private key is compromised so, potentially, is eve

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:16:16PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote: > >I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE > >components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) which > >uses less resources than any of them, but still has

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:26:05PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > Thanks. I'll read up on certificates and read the link at the bottom of > your reply. It's not sinking in at the moment but hopefully it will > after a little reading. > > With respect to the problem: I want to have files on my "

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote: > > I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE > > components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) > > which uses less resources than any of th

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
> Aha! that works! Thanks. You're welcome. > Is that documented somewhere? > I've looked at http://www.kde.org/documentation/ especially > http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/, and http://docs.kde.org/ I found it out by reading (the comments in) /usr/bin/startkde, but in unstable it's now documen

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-26 Thread Wackojacko
Jon Dowland wrote: At 1145901154 past the epoch, Serena Cantor wrote: You are right. Thanks! I will buy a crossover, hope it does not cost much, or I will consider buy a hub. If you have an ethernet patch cable already and want to save some money, you could get the schematic for a crossover an

mysql character set problem

2006-04-26 Thread Michalik Tamás
Hello! I use debian sarge with mysql 4.1. The problem is the following: I set the deafault character set, and collation in my.cnf, and I check it: mysql> show variables like '%server'; +--+-+ | Variable_name| Value | +--

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Rob Benton
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In my subjective opinion, Gnome 2.14 runs much faster and with less resources than KDE 5.

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread John Stumbles
Jon Dowland wrote: It depends entirely on which session manager is used or which method of starting your session. If you create a ~/.xsession script which execs "startkde" you could specify the PATH before that and have it inherited by startkde and all subsequent processes. You then would need t

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread John Stumbles
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Try renaming `setpath' to `setpath.sh'. Aha! that works! Thanks. Is that documented somewhere? I've looked at http://www.kde.org/documentation/ especially http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/, and http://docs.kde.org/ Of course it only works for kde. That's good enou

Re: Compiling pgadmin3

2006-04-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Marco Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, It seems to me pgadmin3 on debian unstable repository has been compiled with a gcc version different than wxWidgets library required one. So I decided to recompile pgadmin from deb-src following the instructions I found here (ubuntu oriented) http:

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/sshd >> For the record, -i at the end. > Sort of why I put the comment: > Now, since I have not tested this at all... it should really >

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Liam O'Toole schrieb am 26.04.2006 15:25: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:55:27 +0200 > Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Because other users can't log in via GDM but startx with >>gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc works, I guess GDM is responsible for >>the failure. But as I wrote even installing

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Ferran Donadie schrieb am 26.04.2006 15:54: > it might have something to do with it... check my post > vnc+gdm+xinetd, I had a kernel 2.4.18 with sid and xorg, I > did sort it out, compiling a 2.6 series kernel...I might just > talking nonsense though. I run Sarge with a 2.6 vanilla kernel and XF

Compiling pgadmin3

2006-04-26 Thread Marco Rossi
Hi, It seems to me pgadmin3 on debian unstable repository has been compiled with a gcc version different than wxWidgets library required one. So I decided to recompile pgadmin from deb-src following the instructions I found here (ubuntu oriented) http://www.buberel.org/serendipity/index.php?/arc

Older Mozilla not supported anymore (was: Re: Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?)

2006-04-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 26 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > mozilla developer center announced 'sunset' for mozilla 1.7.x and > Firefox 1.0.x etc. ie. these won't be supported by mozilla any more. Thank you very much for this information, Johannes. > What does this mean for mozilla, firefox and thunderbird in

need help: keyboard-interactive authentification of ssh stopped working

2006-04-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, during the last one or two weeks, suddenly I lost the ability to log into one of my machines using ssh. It seems that the keyboard-interactive authentification mechanism suddenly stopped working. I am a bit of a loss how to track this down, any help would be greatly appreciated. The details

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-04-26 16:06:20, John Stumbles wrote: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > >I personally use .xsession / .xinitrc to start a custom X session and > >add ~/bin to my $PATH in there. > >To do the same with GNOME, you can edit ~/.gnomerc. > >To do the same with KDE, you can create a new executable

Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?

2006-04-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
mozilla developer center announced 'sunset' for mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0.x etc. ie. these won't be supported by mozilla any more. http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/ What does this mean for mozilla, firefox and th

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? > > Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from > time to time via ssh however. 500k of a resident ssh is 500k I could free up > by moving i

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? > > Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from > time to time via ssh however. 500k of a resident ssh is 500k I could free up > by moving it

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:03, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson: >> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote: >> > Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand >> > the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that >> > int

Re: GSM/UMTS-Modem on serial Port [was Re: Onboard Modem]

2006-04-26 Thread IraqiGeek
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:13 AM GMT, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2006-04-21 18:40:29, schrieb Hans du Plooy: Another option is a GSM modem (assuming you're on a GSM network). It sits on your serial port, like an ordinary modem, but does the conversion to cellphone langu

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Ferran Donadie
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:25:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:55:27 +0200 > Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Because other users can't log in via GDM but startx with > > gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc works, I guess GDM is responsible for > > the failure. But a

Re: etch mirrors, ppc, cannot find release file

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
> I've run into some problems trying to install etch beta 2 (netinstall). > after configuring my network, I am asked to choose a mirror and then it > starts searching for the release file on that mirror. thing is, it never > finds the release file. I have tried all of the swedish mirrors listed,

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-04-26 10:39:43, John Stumbles wrote: > On kubuntu (and SuSE, IIRC) if I have a ~/bin directory it gets included > in my $PATH but this doesn't happen under debian. (In all cases I'm > using kde with kdm as my window manager.) ... > I've googled www and usenet and searched debian lists but n

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Ron Johnson wrote: I suppose that should've been version 2.8 Gotcha. What branch is that, Stable? Sid is at 2.14, and 2.8 is old enough that I didn't believe that anyone is still using it... Uhm yes that's stable (though I don't use gnome myself) (Chances of breakage still make me feel I

Re: Udev problem

2006-04-26 Thread Frank Hart
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:09AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > I had a similar problem and solved it by doing a "apt-get --purge > remove" followed by moving the old /etc/udev/ out of the way to > /etc/udev.old/ > > Then I reinstalled the udev I needed and the problem sorted itself out. Seems to

OT: mkfs.vfat starex digital mp3 player 1GB

2006-04-26 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I have a starex mp3 player, 1GB. The filesystem got corrupt and I did a mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sda (yes, it uses /dev/sda). It won't start now. I guess I could recover it using an image of a similar player. # Using a similar one cat /dev/sda > starex # Restoring the image cat starex > /dev/sda

Re: vnc+gdm+xinetd - SOLVED

2006-04-26 Thread Ferran Donadie
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:52:28PM +0100, Ferran Donadie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:30:09AM -0700, Matt Johnson wrote: > > > > > > - Original Message > > From: Ferran Donadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Sent: Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 10:45:06 AM >

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:05 +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > >>Both desktops have been making huge strides lately in performance and > >>what not. I hadn't used GNOME/KDE in about a year, but I have given the > >>1.8 r

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 02:03 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson: > > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand > > > the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:55:27 +0200 Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because other users can't log in via GDM but startx with > gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc works, I guess GDM is responsible for > the failure. But as I wrote even installing the old version of GDM > didn't change anything.

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Hello Kent, thanks for your answer! Kent West schrieb am 26.04.2006 14:14: > Christoph Bier wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session >>works however. > > I'd take GDM out of the picture myself just to simplify things > ("/etc/init.d/gdm stop"

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Hello Jon, thanks for your answer! Jon Dowland schrieb am 26.04.2006 14:11: > At 1146043481 past the epoch, Christoph Bier wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The >>failsafe session works however. > > Create a temporary user. Can that user log into GNOME? I

Re: Solved: Failed wireless connection

2006-04-26 Thread Antonio Rafael C. Paiva
Thank you Chris. This is very strange. After getting the wireless link up, instead of running the DHCP client directly, I run the ifup as you have and it worked. Well at least it work now... Thanks, Antonio Chris Lale wrote: > Antonio Paiva wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to use wireless access

GSM/UMTS-Modem on serial Port [was Re: Onboard Modem]

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 18:40:29, schrieb Hans du Plooy: > Another option is a GSM modem (assuming you're on a GSM network). It > sits on your serial port, like an ordinary modem, but does the > conversion to cellphone language. Because you are talking abourt it I have a GSM-Modem (costs around 50 Eu

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 15:19:23, schrieb Mike McCarty: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > >Am 2006-04-11 23:37:59, schrieb tom arnall: > > > >>IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST??? > > > > > >NO, because it is and not ;-) > > > >Greetings > >Michelle Konzack > > Why, yes there are list admnistrators which

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 15:18:18, schrieb Mike McCarty: > Guantanamo is not a territory. It is a base which is leased from Right, same for Aserbaijan... But the US-Governement treat it like this. Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ###

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand > > the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that > > into a text-only message. > > There isn't anything non-ISO abo

Weired SPAMSCORE [63% SPAM SCAN] Re: Re: Install Debian 3.1 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
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Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Adam Hardy
Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote: I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) which uses less resources than any of them, but still has that "Desktop Environment" convenience. Cool. Do you launch them

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Kent West
Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session > works however. I'd take GDM out of the picture myself just to simplify things ("/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as root), and start X with "startx" (as normal user). You might need to create/edit ~/.xin

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146043481 past the epoch, Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The > failsafe session works however. Create a temporary user. Can that user log into GNOME? If so, there's a problem with the stuff in your $HOME (possible buried under ~/.gnome or

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:41:36 +0100 Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1146047983 past the epoch, John Stumbles wrote: > > I've googled www and usenet and searched debian lists but > > not found an answer to the question of setting the > > environment for my whole X session, not just for c

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146047983 past the epoch, John Stumbles wrote: > I've googled www and usenet and searched debian lists but > not found an answer to the question of setting the > environment for my whole X session, not just for console > session within X. It depends entirely on which session manager is used or

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146000792 past the epoch, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ah, thanks. It's a 96 from unixshell.com. Trying to fit exim, > apache(-ssl), SA, clamav all in 96Mb is rough. :( I have 80MB RAM and I've given up running spamassassin. I quite comfortably run exim4, crm114, apache, ssh, bind, a popd, an im

Re: thunderbird

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1165531196 past the epoch, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:39:56 +0330 Please fix the time on your computer: It is not December '06 :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Failed wireless connection

2006-04-26 Thread Chris Lale
Antonio Paiva wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use wireless access with a Asus WL-100 pcmcia wireless card. The card is detected and works in the system (Debian Etch beta2). When I insert the card the hostap driver is activated. I then changed the driver default wireless parameters with: iwconfig w

Re: wireless problems

2006-04-26 Thread Chris Lale
lostson wrote: I cant build either module wlan-bg or ndiswrapper is this a know problem on etch? I have the kernel-source and the headers and just am having no luck. I have googled around trying to find something and found a few and have followed the directions but still to no avail, any ideas,

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Both desktops have been making huge strides lately in performance and what not. I hadn't used GNOME/KDE in about a year, but I have given the 1.8 release a whirl and it does seem a lot snappier. Version 1.8? Am I

include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread John Stumbles
On kubuntu (and SuSE, IIRC) if I have a ~/bin directory it gets included in my $PATH but this doesn't happen under debian. (In all cases I'm using kde with kdm as my window manager.) The ~/.bash_profile of any new users I create has: "" # include .b

Re: Can DVD-R do multi-session

2006-04-26 Thread Ivan Glushkov
T wrote: Hi Can any confirm me whether DVD-R can do multi-session or not? It can cheers, Ivan I had always thought DVD-R can only write once. But one thought suddenly strikes me that CDRs can only write once also, but it can do multi-session. So why not DVD-R. thanks a lot tong

Re: Building packages with apt-src with --enable-debug?

2006-04-26 Thread Adam Porter
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-04-12 04:23:17, schrieb Adam Porter: >> I'm trying to debug some annoying Jabber problems in Kopete. I need to >> build Kopete with --enable-debug. Naturally, Kopete is part of >> kdenetwork, >> which is a huge package. I'd like to build it with apt-src, but I c

etch mirrors, ppc, cannot find release file

2006-04-26 Thread stefan peterson
hi I've run into some problems trying to install etch beta 2 (netinstall). after configuring my network, I am asked to choose a mirror and then it starts searching for the release file on that mirror. thing is, it never finds the release file. I have tried all of the swedish mirrors listed, s

Re: send hostname in dhclient.conf

2006-04-26 Thread Berge Schwebs Bjørlo
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 05:03:32PM +0200, Daniel Gonzalez Schiller wrote: > how can i do this that dhclient.conf send my hostname to the dhcp server? > is there any script that copy the entry in /etc/hostname and paste it > on /etc/dhclient.conf? Take a look at the file /etc/dhclient.conf and the

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